Hospitals
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm - Florence Nightingale
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The Life-Changing Magic of Choosing the Right Hospital
There’s an exceedingly simple way to get better health care: Choose a better hospital. A recent study shows that many patients have already done so, driving up the market shares of higher-quality hospitals.
A great deal of the decrease in deaths from heart attacks over the past two decades can be attributed to specific medical technologies like stents and drugs that break open arterial blood clots. But a study by health economists at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia and the University of Chicago showed that heart attack survival gains from patients selecting better hospitals were significant, about half as large as those from breakthrough technologies.
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Researchers rank best ‘hospital cities’ in the US and the world
Which large cities have the best hospitals in the United States? In the world? Fear not: researchers at MedBelle—a London- and Berlin-based digital hospital provider of application programs, software, and systems for medical procedures—have done the calculations for us, ranking the top cities for hospital infrastructure based on quality, accessibility, and ecosystem. They analyzed each hospital within each city designated as a "top hospital city."
Safest Hospitals
For the seventh year, HealthGrades, a hospital rating company based in Golden, Colo., has gauged which facilities best protect their patients from complications and mortality. In a study that evaluates "quality and clinical excellence," the company has identified 270 hospitals out of 5,000 that collectively had a 28% lower mortality rate and 8% lower complication rate than the national average
The Life-Changing Magic of Choosing the Right Hospital
There’s an exceedingly simple way to get better health care: Choose a better hospital. A recent study shows that many patients have already done so, driving up the market shares of higher-quality hospitals.
Best Children's Hospitals
If a hospital is among the best at caring for very sick adults, does that mean it's a good place for seriously ill kids, too? Not necessarily. Treatments for children and adults with the same disease aren't always the same, and tubes, needles, and dosages can't simply be scaled down. The Best Children's Hospitals rankings showcase medical centers that every day deal with kids...
Best Hospitals
U.S. News analyzed data on nearly 5,000 U.S. hospitals to identify the best.
Cal Hospital Compare
Some hospitals provide better care than others. This site rates quality of care, patient experience, and safety measures for hospitals in your area.
Clear Health Costs
We’re working to bring transparency to the health-care marketplace. By building a platform that focuses on price information for medical procedures, we are empowering consumers to make informed decisions about the costs of their medical care and coverage.
FAIR Health
Get essential information on costs for thousands of procedures and learn insurance basics.
Hospital Compare
Hospital Compare has information about the quality of care at over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals- Opens in a new window across the country. You can use Hospital Compare to find hospitals and compare the quality of their care.
Hospital Safety Grade
Our movement works to keep patients safe from errors, accidents, and infections.
Hospital Survey
The annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey assesses hospital performance based on national performance measures. These measures and practices are of specific interest to healthcare purchasers and consumers, and cover a broad spectrum of hospital services, processes, and structures.
Quality Check
The Joint Commission makes no representations or guarantees about the accuracy of the information or the quality of care provided by any organization not accredited by The Joint Commission listed on this site.
Amino
Get access to information you can’t find anywhere else—from cost estimates at facilities to detailed stats about every doctor in America. Amino is a quick and easy way to find and book the right care at the right price.
Care Opinion
An independent site about your experiences of UK health services, good or bad. We pass your stories to the right people to make a difference.
CMS.gov
Quality health care is a high priority for the President, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS implements quality initiatives to assure quality health care for Medicare Beneficiaries through accountability and public disclosure. CMS uses quality measures in its various quality initiatives that include quality improvement, pay for reporting, and public reporting.
ConsumerHealthRatings.com
ConsumerHealthRatings.com provides the most comprehensive listing of organizations that rate or report performance on specific hospitals, health plans, physicians, nursing homes, home health agencies and other health care providers in the United States.
HCAHPS
The intent of the HCAHPS initiative is to provide a standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients' perspectives on hospital care. While many hospitals have collected information on patient satisfaction, prior to HCAHPS there was no national standard for collecting or publicly reporting patients' perspectives of care information that would enable valid comparisons to be made across all hospitals.
Healthcare Reviews
Rate your doctor, hospital, dentist, medicine and all other healthcare workers with our fast and easy to use forms.
HealthGrades
HealthGrades is the leading healthcare ratings organization, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals. Millions of consumers and hundreds of the nation's largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades' independent ratings, consulting and products to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care.
The Leapfrog Group
The Leapfrog Group is a voluntary program aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America's health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded.
Why Not The Best
WhyNotTheBest.org was created and is maintained by The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation working toward a high performance health system. It is a free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality.
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